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Word: browed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...measure of the West's growing self-confidence that the note scarcely furrowed a diplomatic brow. The man most vulnerable fielded it deftly. Said West Germany's Chancellor Adenauer: "This conference would not have been proposed if the Paris agreements had not been signed last month. I would welcome such a conference in due time, especially if it would really lead to a collective security system for Europe, because this would mean the reunification of Germany. But such a conference would have to be well prepared. It dare not fail. I therefore do not believe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLD WAR: The Upheld Conference | 11/22/1954 | See Source »

Army, also stocked with strong sophomore depth, may also give Cornell trouble. Navy is an unknown quantity, but information from Annapolis leads competing include Doug Brow of Dartmouth and Marty Duckworth of Yale...

Author: By Bernard M. Gwertzman, | Title: Cornell Harriers Favored To Win Heptagonal Crown | 11/5/1954 | See Source »

...Laura it is a developing Webb that holds one's interest. Watching him learn to set his sneering lip just so, arch a well-trimmed eye-brow at a studied angle, and tinge his voice with the exact tone of what passes for atrophying scorn, provides an interesting two hours. In the context of a middling good detective story, the early Webb is irrestible...

Author: By Robert J. Schoenberg, | Title: Laura | 10/25/1954 | See Source »

...grew up, Libby turned from Moanin' Low to higher-brow efforts: American folk music, serious drama. In 1945 her second husband, Actor Ralph Holmes, died from an overdose of sleeping pills. Five years later Topper, who had become a popular, intelligent youth and the center of Libby's life, died in a mountain-climbing accident on Mount Whitney (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Old Favorite in Manhattan | 10/18/1954 | See Source »

...MOTHER DITCH, by Oliver La Farge (Houghton Mifflin; $2.25), follows a young Spanish-American boy as he earns his bread by the sweat of his brow in the arid New Mexican soil that Novelist-Anthropologist La Farge (Laughing Boy) knows and loves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Children's Hour | 8/9/1954 | See Source »

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